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These materials are made available for personal use solely as supplements, and not replacements, for training and scholarship. To arrange for distribution of these materials or to include them in instructional curricula with your organization, please contact us.
These materials are made available for personal use solely as supplements, and not replacements, for training and scholarship. To arrange for distribution of these materials or to include them in instructional curricula with your organization, please contact us.
Resource Library Contents
- Newsletters
- General Resources
- Training Modules
- Courses
- Advanced Practice Institute: Introduction to Signs of Safety
- The Art of Asking Questions
- California Signs of Safety Convening
- Family Meeting Facilitation (Part I)
- Family Meeting Facilitation (Part II)
- Partnering for Safety: Deepening Your Practice...
- Reunion of Sharing and Learning
- Reunion of Sharing and Learning (Leadership)
- Safety Planning
- Training for Trainers: Safety-Organized Practice
Reaching Out (Fall 2011). This edition of the Academy newsletter focuses especially on Signs of Safety, including discussion on the topics of evaluation, safety planning, family meetings, and county experiences.
General Resources
Safety Planning Meeting Scale by Roosma, et al.
Sample Intake Questions for gathering information useful in SOP case planning.
Safety Mapping Guide for social workers and Sample Safety Map for use with families or in case staffing.
Solution-focused sample questions by Sue Lohrbach.
Training Modules
The Academy has worked with the NCCD Children's Research Center in their development of twelve modules of handouts, PowerPoint presentations, and other materials used to train Safety-Organized Practice. We have made those materials available for download here for training within our counties. If you would like permission to use these materials outside of the 28 Northern California counties we serve, please contact us for more information.
Download entire set
Module 1: Interviewing for Safety and Danger
Module 2: Three Questions
Module 3: Small Voices, Big Impact
Module 4: Solution-focused Inquiry
Module 5: Mapping in the Office
Module 6: Harm and Danger, Safety Goals
Module 7: Mapping with Families
Module 8: Safety Networks
Module 9: Safety Planning
Module 10: Landing SOP in Everyday Work
Module 11: Organizational Environments
Module 12: Summary and the Future
Course Materials
Advanced Practice Institute: Introduction to Signs of Safety
September 21-23, 2011 in Davis
The Signs of Safety approach (created by Andrew Turnell) seeks to form a constructive, purposeful focus among all the stakeholders involved with children and families by generating a clear, shared understanding of the problems facing that family and a straightforward vision of what future safety for the children needs to look like. When this is integrated with the reliability and validity of the Structured Decision-Making tools (created by the Children’s Research Center), a powerful and deepened approach to child welfare practice is created.
These three days will explore the possibilities of this integrated approach and will tackle:
What kinds of partnerships between workers and families are possible in situations involving conflict? How can protective workers maintain a rigorous focus on child safety while promoting hope and change for family members? How can our conversations with families be a useful tool for change? How can the Signs of Safety tools be linked with the Structured Decision-Making tools in regular practice? What are the best strategies for teaching this kind of approach to others?
Overview of the three days:
September 21, morning: Overview of the Approach
September 21, afternoon: Safety Mapping
September 22: Working with Children
September 23: Practice and Taking it Home
PowerPoint presentation (Day One)
PowerPoint presentation (Day Two)
PowerPoint presentation (Day Three)
Handout packet
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The Art of Asking Questions: Motivational Interviewing, Signs of Safety, and Solutions-focused Practice
December 6, 2011 in Davis
This one-day workshop provides participants with concrete skills to both receive necessary information from clients for case/safety planning but also to engage and empower the client to direct their own change process while in the child welfare system.PowerPoint presentation
Topics include:
- Questions to ask/skills to use when engaging clients in case planning
- How to frame questions so that clients are not put on the defense
- How to appropriately honor clients' success and strengths to promote further success
- Participants should have experience in Signs of Safety, motivational interviewing and/or solution-focused therapy prior to attending this workshop.
CPS Vignettes
Choice Map
Decisional Balance Worksheet
Change Planning Worksheet
Confidence and Readiness Rulers
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California Signs of Safety Convening
November 8, 2011 in Davis
The goal of this convening is to bring together California counties that are implementing (or considering implementing) a coordinated use of Signs of Safety with other risk and safety tools like CAT and SDM. The convening is a unique opportunity for counties to share their experiences and results over time with each other and to inform child welfare supportive organizations, showing them how public child welfare agencies are expanding their practice to better assess child safety and improved family engagement.Due to copyright issues, not all materials are available online. Please contact us for copies of materials not listed below.
Objectives
- Understanding the importance of organizational leadership and readiness for successful implementation
- Identifying elements of effective implementation strategies and the critical nature of coaching throughout the implementation process
- Describing the current landscape of safety and risk assessment practice and current findings from California evaluation
- Exploring the issue of capacity building within CWS agencies and within the state
Convening Summary Report
Structuring the Intake Decision
Planning Factors for Safety and Risk Assessment
Evaluation of SofS In-class Trainings
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Family Meeting Facilitation (Facilitation Skills for FTMs) Part I
October 24-25, 2011 in Redding
October 26-27, 2011 in Davis
January 19-20, 2012 in Davis
April 9-10, 2012 in Davis
This is an experiential training for facilitators of Safety Organized Family Team Meetings (FTM) in child welfare agencies. This curriculum is designed to be used in conjunction with pre-training reading and exposure to Signs of Safety concepts and safety mapping conducted with a family. The purpose of Family Team Meetings (FTM) of any type is to build agreements between the Department, families, providers and other essential team members. It is largely the responsibility of meeting facilitators to bring a very disparate group of people into FTMs and build critical agreements and decisions.
In this two day facilitation training, you will learn the strategies and skills for helping groups solve problems and build agreement to enhance the safety of children and families. This workshop will provide you with a solid foundation of theory and facilitation practice skills for immediate use.
Handouts for Day 1
Handouts for Day 2
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Family Meeting Facilitation (Facilitation Skills for FTMs) Part II
January 25, 2012 in Redding
January 26, 2012 in Davis
March 15, 2012 in Davis
This one-day followup session reunites participants who attended Part I of the Family Meeting Facilitation training. In the previous two-day training, participants examined research-based skills and knowledge about family meetings, and enhanced and developed skills in facilitation of family meetings with an emphasis on the use of Signs of Safety tools and techniques.Handouts
In this followup training, the group will reconvene to discuss and share their progress, as well as engage in focused skill-building to deepen their practice in using safety-organized practice in family meetings.
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Partnering For Safety: Deepening Your Practice with Children, Families, and Communities
September 19-20, 2011 in Davis
This participatory and practice-based workshop will introduce you to and deepen your understanding of tools and practices from the Signs of Safety framework that can enhance your daily work with children, families and their networks.
These assessment and safety planning tools will include: the Three Houses, the Safety House, the Future House (a tool for eliciting family’s ideas about future safety), safety planning tools, and more!
Phil Decter and Sonja Parker are delighted to have the opportunity to co-facilitate this two day workshop. Phil and Sonja will use real case studies to (re-)introduce the tools and will lead demonstrations and practical exercises to engage workshop participants in exploring the use of these tools in day-to-day practice. Workshop participants will leave with enhanced comfort and understanding in these processes.PowerPoint presentation
Handout packet
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Safety Planning
March 14, 2012 in Red Bluff
March 16, 2012 in Davis
This hands-on workshop will engage participants in a dialogue and practice activities about safety planning with children and families to create rigorous, on the ground, sustainable safety plans with child welfare-involved families and their support networks. Safety planning is a process social workers must repeat with families at different points during a case. Effective safety plans create clear and observable guidelines about contact between the children and the potential danger within the context of the family’s culture.PowerPoint Presentation
Based on the Signs of Safety, Safety Planning process, the group will expand their knowledge of safety organized practice into co-creating concrete detailed plans of action made in response to specifically identified dangers (behavioral and action driven) that go beyond our current case plans with families. This course is geared towards child welfare direct service staff, supervisors, and family meeting facilitators.
Safety Planning Tips and Things to Try
Safety-Organized Facilitated Process
Sample Safety Goal Vignette
"I" Family Meeting Notes
"I" Family Safety Circles
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Training for Trainers: Safety-Organized Practice
October 4-6, 2011 in Davis
January 10-12, 2012 in Davis
Nine modules have been developed to support training and coaching of Safety Organized Practice/Sings of Safety. The training will cover core modules with an opportunity to practice and build skill. The training is open to anyone who is interested in conducting training or coaching.
The modules include (in draft)
- Interviewing for Safety as well as Danger
- Three Questions
- Solution-Focused Inquiry
- Interviewing Children
- Safety Mapping: In the Office and in the Field
- Danger and Harm Statements
- Family Safety Networks
- Safety Planning
- Organizational Environments: Reflection, Appreciation and Ongoing Learning
- Implementation
These modules are available upon request to eligible partners. Please contact us for copies of the curriculum and PowerPoint presentations.
These materials are made available for personal use solely as supplements, and not replacements, for training and scholarship. To arrange for distribution of these materials or to include them in instructional curricula with your organization, please contact us.
